…while looking nicely coiffed and wearing tasteful makeup. And yet I’m not going to hit her for hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton is now sixty-four years old, and although she’s no glamour puss, she looks perfectly fine for her age. Every now … Continue reading →
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →
…of gloves can Obama take off and still have more to go? I am so, so tired of reading that Obama is finally taking the gloves off. And amazingly enough, Obama seems to be asking people to keep hoping. It’s … Continue reading →
…lied about and disguised her prior knowledge and approval of waterboarding surprise anyone? The people who care and who disapprove are almost certainly those who washed their hands of the abominable Pelosi long ago. People who think she’s great probably … Continue reading →
Now that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has passed, this might be the best time to state that this stuff is undignified and bothers me whoever does it, Democrat or Republican. I’m all for presidential humor, but it used to … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting comment (the language is not quite what I’d use, but the sentiment is): there is no evidence, in the modern era, that a person more conservative than Reagan can win on a national level. the last person … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Last night I wrote a draft of a post on how Barack Obama’s latest remarks on SCOTUS precedent are an attempt to emulate Franklin Roosevelt in the 30s. I was going to polish it up and submit it to … Continue reading →
Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom—who has already stated that in the general election Romney can hit a reset button—announced a few more details of the reset plan today. Fehrnstrom said: They say that Mitt Romney is a man for all seasons. … Continue reading →
The latest liberal meme is that if the Court rules against Obamacare it will be such an egregious case of conservative judicial activism that the Court will become illegitimate. My question is: to whom? The 72% of the American public … Continue reading →
I’ve long thought that Obamacare was just a prelude to what Obama and the left really want, which is single payer health insurance. Obamacare was an unwieldy compromise, complex and cobbled together and passed because it could be done, whereas … Continue reading →
Stop the presses: E.J. Dionne has a good point: This Republican presidential campaign is demonstrating conclusively that there is an unbridgeable divide between the philosophical commitments conservative candidates make before they are elected and what they will have to do … Continue reading →
The Republican primaries seem to have ground down to a war of the attack ads. Most (if not all?) are the work of PACs, so it’s a bit hard to tell how involved the candidates are. It would be naive … Continue reading →